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It’s my own backend, written in FastAPI The frontend was just copied and upgraded.
Why don't you just implement federation normally instead of taking this roundabout way of doing things? As long as your site contributes content back, and makes it clear where content is from, other projects like piefed and lemmy would be happy to have your project join the network.
Continuing like this will likely get you IP blocked from wherever you're mirroring content from.
Also these platforms are open source. You are allowed to copy and modify things for your own projects, as long as you follow the basic rules in the license.
But you're scraping piefed.social to fill your site with content so you can monetize it, while increasing hosting costs for piefed for your own gain.
Naaaah I only scraped the design, the content will be curated by me and my team
This should be in your title. Your title sounds like you're ripping off user data from Piefed in order to put ads on it.
This is why you have 60 downvotes and all these people calling you an unethical jerk.
I think you are confusing terms. Scraping a website means to download copies of its pages. Mirroring means taking those scraped page copies and re-hosting them on your website. Since you said you were doing both of those things, that would mean you would be mass scraping the site to rehost (mirror) on yours.
If you are not doing either of those, then you are not mass scraping or mirroring. It sounds like instead you just scraped a few pages of piefed, and then modified the CSS/HTML of the page itself for your own purposes?
If so, that's not as bad as I thought.
However, I can guarantee you that no one here is interested in joining an isolated reddit clone that isn't federated with Piefed or lemmy, and which is explicitly designed to eventually allow you to throw ads on it for passive income. That is precisely what we all were trying to escape when we left reddit for the fediverse.